KIRKUS REVIEW

Every page demands that readers
physically interact with this book’s images.

The large, sturdy pages are
necessary to support the plethora of interactions. The first double-page spread
looks busy: a pattern of tiny red rectangles in the background and lots of
silhouettes of familiar images in the foreground, each in green, black, or a
primary color. A blue hand points to a yellow semicircle with the instruction,
“Place your ear here.” After asking if readers have heard anything, the text
announces, “I thought I heard a voice.” The next page directs readers to place
their hands on a series of dots arranged in the shapes of hands. The text
clarifies that telling this story will require “your fingers, your eyes, your
ears…and maybe your nose.” The clever use of shapes and instructions will keep
young readers involved from beginning to end, puzzling out the source of the
supposed voice—although endpapers offer a big hint. Little fingers are
encouraged to, among other things, walk, tiptoe, and drum-roll. There are also
two vocalizing opportunities—and, yes, a chance to use the nose. Fingers will
move over shapes representing a forest, rivers, and the dark: a black
double-page spread with two round, white shapes. Are those eyeballs?! For
optimal use, no more than three at a time should share this book, unless
desiring chaotic silliness.

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